Sheila Kunkle is Associate Professor of Individualized Studies at Metropolitan State University and the coeditor (with Todd McGowan) of Lacan and Contemporary Film.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: On the Subject of Endings
Sheila Kunkle
1. Resolution, Truncation, Glitch 19
Hugh S. Manon
2. The Banality of Trauma: Claire Denis's Bastards and the Anti-Ending
Hilary Neroni
3. The Greatest Trick the Devil Ever Played: Desire, Drive, and the Twist Ending
Ryan Engley
4. Retroactive Rupture: The Place of the Subject in Jane Campion's In the Cut
Fabio Vighi
5. Love, Loss, Endings, and Beginnings: A Psychoanalysis of Rust and Bone
Juan Pablo Lucchelli
6. Cinematic Ends: The Ties that Unbind in Claire Denis's White Material
Jennifer Friedlander
7. When One Becomes Two: The Ending of Catfish
Rex Butler
8. The Satisfaction of an Ending
Todd McGowan
9. The Too Realistic Cut: Gaze as Overconformity in Blue Velvet
Henry Krips
10. The End of Fantasy as We Know It: Her and the Vanishing Mediator of the Voice in Film
Sheila Kunkle
11. Melancholia, an Alternative to the End of the World: A Reading of Lars von Trier's Film
David Denny
12. Cut or Time and American Cinema of Thought-Affect: Cuts of Failure in John Huston's Fat City
A. Kiarina Kordela
13. The End of (Self) Analysis: The End of Kurosawa's High and Low
Brian Wall
14. The Final Failure in The Dark Knight Rises
Slavoj Zizek
15. The ["End"]
jan jagodzinski
Contributors
Index